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Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse V.17

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Verse V.17 Variations

प्रदीपविद्युन्मणिचन्द्रभास्करान्
प्रतीत्य पश्यन्ति यथा सचक्षुषः
महार्थधर्मप्रतिभाप्रभाकरं
मुनिं प्रतीत्येदमुदाहृतं तथा

E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.

pradīpavidyunmaṇicandrabhāskarān
pratītya paśyanti yathā sacakṣuṣaḥ
mahārthadharmapratibhāprabhākaraṃ
muniṃ pratītyedamudāhṛtaṃ tathā

E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.

ཇི་ལྟར་སྒྲོན་གློག་ནོར་བུ་ཉི་ཟླ་ལ། །
བརྟེན་ནས་མིག་དང་ལྡན་པ་ལྟ་བ་བཞིན། །
དེ་བཞིན་དོན་ཆེན་ཆོས་སྤོབས་འོད་མཛད་པ། །
ཐུབ་ལ་བརྟེན་ནས་འདི་ཉིད་རབ་ཏུ་བཤད། །

Dege, PHI, 144

Just as those with eyes [can] see in dependence on
A lamp, lightning, a jewel, the moon, and the sun,
So I expounded this [treatise] in dependence on the sage
Who is the sun that illuminates the dharma of great meaning.

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 457

De même qu’à la lumière d’une lampe, d’un éclair, d’un joyau,

Du soleil ou de la lune, ceux qui ont des yeux voient,

De même, j’ai donné toutes ces explications par la grâce du Sage

qui répand sa lumière

Sur les enseignements, leur sens, leur expression verbale

et l’assurance du discours.

Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.

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།དེ་ལྟར་ཡིད་ཆེས་ལུང་དང་རིགས་པ་ལ། །བརྟེན་ནས་བདག་ཉིད་འབའ་ཞིག་དག་ཕྱིར་དང་། །གང་དག་མོས་དགེ་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས་ལྡན་བློ། །དེ་དག་རྗེས་སུ་གཟུང་ཕྱིར་འདི་བཤད་དོ། །ཇི་ལྟར་བཤད་པ་འདི་ལས་བརྩམས་ཏེ་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ། ཇི་ལྟར་སྒྲོན་གློག་ནོར་བུ་{br}ཉི་ཟླ་ལ། །བརྟེན་ནས་མིག་དང་ལྡན་པ་ལྟ་བ་བཞིན། །དེ་བཞིན་དོན་ཆེན་ཆོས་སྤོབས་འོད་མཛད་པ། །ཐུབ་ལ་བརྟེན་ནས་འདི་ནི་རབ་ཏུ་བཤད། །གང་བཤད་པ་དེ་ལས་བརྩམས་ཏེ་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ། གང་ཞིག་དོན་ལྡན་ཆོས་དང་ཉེར་འབྲེལ་ཞིང་། །ཁམས་གསུམ་ཀུན་ནས་ཉོན་མོངས་སྤོང་བྱེད་གསུང་། །{br}ཞི་བའི་ཕན་ཡོན་སྟོན་པར་མཛད་པ་གང་། །དེ་ནི་དྲང་སྲོང་གསུང་ཡིན་བཟློག་པ་གཞན། །གང་གིས་བཤད་པ་དེ་ལས་བརྩམས་ཏེ་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ། གང་ཞིག་རྒྱལ་བའི་བསྟན་པ་འབའ་ཞིག་གིས། །དབང་བྱས་རྣམ་གཡེང་མེད་ཡིད་ཅན་གྱིས་བཤད། །ཐར་པ་ཐོབ་པའི་ལམ་དང་རྗེས་{br}མཐུན་པར། །དེ་ཡང་དྲང་སྲོང་བཀའ་བཞིན་སྤྱི་བོས་བླང་།

[Hereafter, (there follow four) verses that describe on which basis (this treatise) was explained, what caused (its composition), how (it was explained), and what (its characteristics) are. First, there is a verse about its basis and what caused (its composition).]

Thus, on the basis of trustworthy scriptures and reasoning,

I expounded this [treatise] in order to purify just myself

And also for the sake of supporting those who are endowed

With intelligence, faith, and fulfillment of virtue. V.16

[(Next, there is) a verse about how (this treatise) was explained.]

Just as those with eyes [can] see in dependence on

A lamp, lightning, a jewel, the moon, and the sun,

So I expounded this [treatise] in dependence on the sage

Who is the sun that illuminates the dharma of great meaning. V.17

[(There follows) a verse about what (the characteristics of what) was explained are.]

Any utterance that is meaningful, is connected with the words of the dharma,

Relinquishes the afflictions of the three realms,

And teaches the benefit of peace

Is the speech of the seer, while others are its opposite. V.18

[(Next, there is) a verse about (the means) by which it was explained.]

Whatever is said by those with undistracted minds

Who recognize the victor alone as their teacher (J118)

And accords with the path of the accumulations for attaining liberation

Should be respected as much as [the words of] the seer. V.19

itīdamāptāgamayuktisaṃśrayā-

dudāhṛtaṃ kevalamātmaśuddhaye/

dhiyādhimuktyā kuśalopasaṃpadā

samanvitā ye tadanugrahāya ca//16//

pradīpavidyunmaṇicandrabhāskarān

pratītya paśyanti yathā sacakṣuṣaḥ/

mahārthadharmapratibhāprabhākaraṃ

muniṃ pratītyedamudāhṛtaṃ tathā//17//

yadarthavaddharmapadopasaṃhitaṃ

tridhātusaṃkleśani barhaṇa vacaḥ/

bhavecca yacchāntyanuśaṃsadarśakaṃ

taduktamārṣaṃ viparītamanyathā//18//

yatsyādavikṣiptamanobhiruktaṃ

śāstāramekaṃ jinamuddiśadbhiḥ/

mokṣā ptisaṃbhārapathānukūlaṃ

mūrdhnā tadapyārṣamiva pratīcchet//19//

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Other English translations

Obermiller (1931)

As, with the aid of a lamp, of lightning,

Of a precious stone, the sun, and the moon,

Those possessed of vision are able to see,—

Similarly, I have explained all this,

Relying upon the Lord, who illuminates

By (his perfect knowledge of) the meaning,

The words, and the elements, and by his flashes of idea.

Takasaki (1966)

Just as, with the aid of a lamp, of lightning,

Of a precious stone, of the moon and the sun,

Those possessed of vision can perceive objects;

Similarly, I have expounded this treatise

Relying upon the Lord who is the sun

Manifesting the Doctrine of great welfare.

Fuchs (2000)

As someone with eyes sees by relying on a lamp,

or on lightning, a jewel, the sun, or the moon,

this has been truly explained by relying on the Muni,

brilliant in meaning, words, phenomena, and power.

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